"If heartaches was commercials, we'd all be on TV."

-- John Prine

#Heartache Quotes #Tvs Quotes

“You can't blame a match for a house made of straw, Alek.”
“Her skin is pale as watermelon sucked free of its juices.”

Source : Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Ghosts Of Ashbury High”, p.20, Scholastic Inc.
“My lad chewed and swallowed a dictionary. We gave him Epsom salts - but we can't get a word out of him.”

Source : Les Dawson (2012). “Les Dawson's Joke Book”, p.22, Michael O'Mara Books
“Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other--there will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow--its contribution to the welfare of all.”
“Never open your story with a character thinking, I advise my students. As a further precaution, donâ€™t put a character in a room alone â€“ create a friend, a bystander, a genie, for Godâ€™s sake, any sentient creature with whom your main character can converse, perhaps argue or, better yet, engage in some action. If a person is out and doing, itâ€™s more likely that something interesting might happen to her or him. Shut up in a room with only his thoughts for company well, that way lies fictional disaster.”
“Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.”
“NRA - Nuts Running America.”
“The best self promotion is your next book. And the book after that and after that â€¦”

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